Session 5: David Gibbons Third Culture Leaders

More on David Gibbons here:

http://kemmeyer.typepad.com/less_clutter_noise/2009/03/the-monkey-and-the-fish--blog-tour.html

• 2 Key commandments, love God, love your neighbor
• We developed a “consumeristic” church
• 3rd culture leader: Adaptation… painful Adaptation… learn and live in any culture even if it’s painful
• When we love people that aren't like us, people will notice. When we hang out with people only like ourselves…that’s just normal.
• 3rd culture leaders is about the misfits, not the masses
• If you want to make a change in culture, you need to go after the early adopters, the people in the margins…. The fringe/misfits lead us
• Dooce.com…. over a million people follow her tweets, thousands follow her blog
• Vision typically starts with leader to Exec Team, to masses…. Normal…. In God’s model, the fringes lead from the outside/masses inward to vision
• Ask the question, who’s the outsider in our community or in the margins that may lead innovation?
• 3rd culture leaders have different metrics for success…. Normal… up and to the right… Reality is that failure IS success to God
• Your weakness/failure is a gift from God
• Most of the world doesn't understand America's success, but they do understand failure
• More important than strengths are peoples' stories... do we assess people on their story?
• Relationships trump vision. You can't have a great vision without relationships
• We need more relationaries over visionaries- different metric for 3rd culture leaders
• Change priorities to 70/30.... What are you spending your 70% on? Equipping leaders or creating messages, hung-up on tasks?
• Redesign space, let local leaders design the space, let the fringe lead
• Obedience more important than passion
• 4 acts of obedience: Deeper collaboration.... outside of just our church/organization, Communal living... group of families choose a neighborhood... Prayer... do we really believe in the power of the Spirit, if so, wouldn't we pray? Radical sacrifice for the outsider... put aside material possessions... comfort